Ooh! Look. Shiny!

Supernatural’s Apocalypse is bubbling but everyone’s off on their own paths. Castiel (Misha Collins) went to draft God onto special teams. Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) took a time out. Will Sam face his issues or freely indulge his darkside? Can our antihero with great hair turn his curse into something good? Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) is soldiering on alone, but even a reluctant leader needs more than his steel horse and a PSA from Marlo Thomas.

A spoilery clip from Supernatural episode 5.03 “Free to Be You and Me” follows the break, plus a link to Eric Kripke discussing a few upcoming episodes.
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Winchester Family Business - the Supernatural guide to demon hunting (and fishing)
Contains spoilers through Supernatural Episode 5.02 “Good God, Y’All.”

This episode opens with the sobering sight of Bobby in a wheelchair, the obvious first casualty in the apocalyptic war. Everyone else in his hospital room is carrying scars too. Castiel was reborn, but he’s lost some of his mojo and cannot heal Bobby. He can’t even find the Winchesters without using a cell phone. When Dean laughs at his plan to draft God onto the team, Castiel airs his grievences – he had to kill two of his angel brothers, he’s cut off from Heaven. He lost everything for nothing since Dean failed to stop Sam and they didn’t save the world. Castiel figures God resurrected him and put the guys on the Soul Plane, so God can actually make a dent with Lucifer. Castiel borrows Dean’s amulet to use as a God EMF and disappears to locate God.

Dean’s still carrying his distrust of Sam when they start the job to help other hunters save a town overrun by demons. After killing two people he thinks are demons, Sam’s thirst for demonblood and power gets reawakened. Sam admits to Dean that he’s dangerous. Dean agrees that worrying about Sam is effecting how he can do his job right. They part ways, presumably to lick their wounds.
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It’s another Supernatural Thursday! The days of miracle and wonder roll on as the angels versus demons war slouches towards Bethlehem.

Team Winchester battles on the front lines again this week when they join up with some old allies to save an imperiled town. But things may not be what they seem. Those demons (and angels) are tricky.

A preview clip for Supernatural episode 5.02 “Good God Ya’ll” and links to other preview clips follow the break.

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Winchester Family Business - the Supernatural guide to demon hunting (and fishing)

Contains spoilers for Supernatural Episode 5.01 “Sympathy for the Devil.”

The days of miracle and wonder start with Lucifer’s arriving white light. Sam and Dean Winchester were nearly thunderstruck by Lucifer’s arriving beam but Somebody put them on a Soul Plane to safety.

Our heroes searched for answers but Zachariah and Meg kept dogging Dean for his sword. Castiel was smited into chunky soup but Somebody brought him back to save Team Winchester. Meanwhile Lucifer’s beam circled Nick, his intended vessel. Nick’s grief and anger gave him too much sympathy with Lucifer’s daddy issues. But Dean had no sympathy for Sammy’s betrayal with that demon Ruby.

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One more day and Lucifer is busted out! Before Supernatural season four ended in a fade to white light, remember that Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) started the dominoes falling once he tortured souls in hell and as a result beak the first seal binding Lucifer. With that lock picked, Lilith started on the next 64 seals. But it was our dear Sammy (Jared Padalecki), hepped up on blood and late-night creeping, who killed Lil to break the final seal holding Lucifer. Just before Dean ganked Ruby (Finally! Thank you Eric Kripke), she told Sam her boss would be grateful. Will Lucifer actually be happy to see Sam? And weirder, will Sam and Dean be happy to meet Lucifer?

Is ManBearPig (er, Lucifer) going to bring wrath and ruin, or smug? Maybe Lucifer’s tactics involve exploiting human pride and good intentions and blinding by rainbows.

The one thing we know for sure is that Metallicar cannot be corrupted by evil. Everyone else is fair game and ripe for temptation.

Supernatural returns with “Sympathy for the Devil” on The CW, on September 10, at 9pm EST/8 pm CST.

Listen to our in-depth discussion of this episode on next week’s Tuning in to SciFi TV (the fans’ guide to sci fi and genre TV.)

Supernatural - Episode 4.08 “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester”

November 2 is All Soul’s Day. In the Catholic religion, it’s a holy day of obligation. The faithful pray for departed friends and family so the souls in purgatory will pass on to heaven. November 2 is also the day that Sam Winchester lost two people he loved. When he was six months old, Azazel came into his nursery to collect on the deal Mary Winchester made with him 10 years before in exchange for John Winchester’s life. Azazel paid his visit, feeding baby Sam demon blood. Mary interrupted Azazel’s work though, so he burned her up on the ceiling for interfering. Twenty-two years later, Sam returns from a demon hunting trip with his brother Dean to find his girlfriend Jessica on the ceiling and then engulfed in flames the same way Mary died.

Sam has yet another awful Halloween as he and his brother Dean have to save a town from the demon behind Halloween or the angels will wipe the town off the map. And the Great Pumpkin is a no-show. Again.

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(Contains references through Supernatural episode 4.07 “Yellow Fever”)

Witches have a hard go of it everywhere. Remember those witches in Oz who were so mad to wear the enchanted ruby slippers? Wear those shoes too long, and a house falls on you, or a bucket of water melts your sister. Then some whiny Dorothy steals the family shoes!

The Ruby shoes, er meatsuits, on Supernatural have a similarly tough gig. What’s a misfit demongirl to do when she just won’t forget her humanity? Does she take the rebel road and play the Good Witch when her wicked sisters won’t invite her in to hell’s heavy clambakes? How’s a Good Witch fit in with the evil doer in-crowd? Maybe Ruby’s not a bad evil thing; maybe she’s just drawn and shoed that way.

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Has Sam Winchester been lured by a ‘sireen’ who loved him up and turned him into a horny toad? Or a vermin-like bug? Or a long pig-eating rugaru? Let’s pick absurd transformation into a monstrous vermin (because that rugaru was just gross). Yep, we’re talking Kafka and Supernatural!
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Supernatural - Episode 4.03 “In the Beginning”
Futile Efforts Part 1

You Son of a Bitch
What a feast of sweets in this scrumptious episode! After such large slices of delicious pie and brownies, one can only suspect that Eric Kripke is cheating. Actually, Jeremy Carver, the Writer of this episode is the cheat. Nearly everything he prepared tasted so good, went down so easy, with such generous portions, that it’s hard to be too upset about the cheating. Almost.
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Supernatural- Episode 4.03 “In the Beginning”

Dean Winchester just wants one piece of pie. He’s not specific as to type, but a slice of good ol’ American cherry pie would probably do the trick. Dean’s been looking so hard for pie, he’s falling asleep without bothering to put on his jammies these days. His brother Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) is so lost in his dark knight work that he doesn’t bother to tuck his brother under the covers before skulking off with that Slutty Yoda.
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